Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...open handicap cross country run will be held on (Washington's Birthday) Tuesday, February 22, at 11 a. m. The route will be as follows: Start in front of the B. A. A. club house to Commonwealth avenue, to Beacon street, straight out Beacon to Reservoir car station, turn right into other side of Beacon street, straight into Commonwealth avenue, right side, to Exeter street, to B. A. A. club house. Finish. Distance will be about seven and one-half miles. Checkers will be posted at different points, and any competitor failing to have his number on any checker...
...late years there has been an increasing movement toward popular recognition of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12, and now it is proposed to make public recognition of the date at Harvard...
...American very few names mean as much as does that of Lincoln. As the Civil War recedes further into the past, Lincoln is gradually rising in the estimation of the people, and the reverence which is felt for his memory is marked by the growing tendency to observe his birthday, as a date worthy of national commemoration. The special service, which is to be held in Appleton Chapel to mark the day, is then sure to appeal to the college...
Next Monday evening, in commemoration of Lincoln's birthday, Mr. Copeland will read from Lincoln's own works, and the writings on him by James Russell Lowell and other poets. On Tuesday evening the course of eight lectures on the novelists will begin...
...subject for the prize debate to be held on Washington's Birthday has been chosen, and is: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of postal savings banks." The following men have been elected to represent the different classes in the debate: '98, D. F. Altland; '99, W. M. Schultz; 1900, S. B. Scott; 1901, S. T. Jones. In the oratorical contest to be held the same day, C. G. Wells will represent the seniors; R. L. Bachmann, Jr., the juniors; D. C. Chambers, the sophomores; and J. Brewer, the freshmen...